Lie Quotes

If someone tells you who they are, believe them.

Maya Angelou

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company 600, 000. No, I replied, I just spent 600, 000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience.

Thomas John Watson, Sr.

When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.

Jawahar Lal Neheru

The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

H. L. Mencken

I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Anne Frank

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up. Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be permissible, even cannibalism.

Brothers Karamazov, Pt 1, Bk i, Ch 6

Liesure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The true skeptic will never believe you no matter how much proof you offer him. The true believer does not need it.

Peter James, Ghosts of the Queen Mary

Life is not easy for any of us, but what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted in something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.

Marie Curie

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

Louis Pasteu

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

George William Curtis

We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.

Marcel Proust

Try to love someone who you want to hate, because they are just like you, somewhere inside, in a way you may never expect, in a way that resounds so deeply within you that you cannot believe it.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 03 - 11 - 04

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.

Charles De Gaulle

They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were they all fused into a single stubbornness.

Louise Erdrich

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. said of Mahatma Gandhi.

Albert Einstein

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

Ralph Hodgson, on ESP

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have come to believe that giving and receiving are really the same. Giving and receiving - Not giving and taking.

Joyce Grenfell

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.

Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire

Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well - Meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.

Sir Winston Churchill, March 1936, demanding British re - Armament

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.

Edward Telle

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company

The great lawyer who employs his talent and his learning in the highly emunerative task of enabling a very wealthy client to override or circumvent the law is doing all that in him lies to encourage the growth in the country of a spirit of dumb anger against all laws and of disbelief in their efficacy.

Theodore Roosevelt

I believe that all of us have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day.

William Gordon

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.

Spider - Man

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.

Ludwig Mises

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

George Bernard Shaw

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Dale Carnegie

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Hilaire Belloc

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Chapter 1, first line

I believe in an immortal soul. Science has proved that nothing disintegrates into nothingness. Life and soul, therefore, cannot disintegrate into nothingness, and so are immortal.

Wernher Magnus Maximilian von Braun

There is incredible value in being of service to others. I think if most of the people in therapy offices were dragged out to put their finger in a dike, take up their place in a working line, they would be relieved of terrible burdens.

Elizabeth Berg

There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out.

Russian prove

Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.

Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine